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1. America’s Most Walkable Cities: Walk Score shows you where your city stands - We’ve been a fan of Walk Score since it’s inception, and are interested to see how it progresses. This article looks at the most walkable cities in the US – where is yours? America’s Most Walkable Neighborhoods Back to the Future: Walkable Urbanism
2. New Urbanism Promotes Green, Walkable Communities - As cities are becoming more proactive to build walkable communities, they are turning to a new zoning tool known as form-based codes, a method of regulating development to achieve a specific urban form.
3. Cities are “going green,” says a new report, but missing the most important issues and opportunities - I just ran across a very provocative report assessing the response of 40 large US cities to climate change. Published a couple of months ago by the philanthropic collaborative Living Cities, the report Green Cities: How Urban Sustainability Efforts Can and Must Drive America’s Climate Change Policies gives the subjects a mixed grade: four out [...]
4. How walkable neighborhoods increase home values - Posted by: Kevin Klinkenberg It’s often said that Americans love their cars above everything else, and many question the demand for walkable neighborhoods. And yet, as this and other studies have revealed, quality walkable places are highly valued. This shouldn’t be surprising – as human beings, we inherently like to interact with others, and we prefer [...]
5. Why Path to Prosperity? Suburban sprawl causing financial headache for cities - Admittedly it’s a working title, but as we have worked in communities all across the U.S., it’s clear that what so many places are seeking is simple economic development. And why is that – why the relentless search for more growth, more revenue, more employment? The simple answer is – most of our places simply cannot [...]